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New York City councilmember Lincoln Restler founded a volunteer group, the Friends of MTA Station Group, in early 2023 to advocate for improvements to the Borough Hall station and four other subway stations in Brooklyn. [131] [132] The BMT elevators at Clinton Street reopened in June 2023. [133]
The New York City Transit Authority, in March 1971, sought permission from the New York City Board of Estimate to operate express buses during rush hours along the FDR Drive. It was hoped that the route would attract Upper East Side residents that used their cars to get to the Financial District. [264] Began service on April 12, 1971 as the M23X.
When the New York City Transit Authority was created in July 1953, the fare was raised to 15 cents (equivalent to $1.71 in 2023) and a token was issued. [101] In 1970 the fare was raised to 30 cents. [102] This token is 23mm in diameter with a Y cut out, and is known as the "Large Y Cutout".
Broadway is an avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that extends from the East River in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in a southeasterly direction to East New York for a length of 4.32 miles (6.95 km). It was named for the Broadway in Manhattan.
On July 30, 2013, an accident occurred at 56th Street and Boulevard East in West New York, New Jersey, in which Angelie Paredes, an 8-month-old North Bergen resident, was killed in her stroller when a full-sized [24] jitney bus belonging to the New York-based Sphinx company toppled a light pole. The driver, Idowu Daramola of Queens, was ...
The Franklin Avenue Shuttle [3] is a New York City Subway shuttle service operating in Brooklyn. The shuttle service uses the BMT Franklin Avenue Line exclusively and operates 24 hours a day. The north terminus is Franklin Avenue , with a transfer available to the IND Fulton Street Line .
On September 17, 1954, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) approved a plan to cut Brooklyn bus service by 10%, including the elimination of B54 service between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. to cut costs. [22] Free transfers would have been provided between the B53 and B57 to make up for the loss of evening and overnight B54 service.
New York City Transit Authority: Garage: East New York Depot: Vehicle: New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 OBI Orion VII NG HEV: Route; Locale: Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Communities served: East New York, Ocean Hill, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO: Start: East New York ...